The Brookhaven leader., 1887-01-20
STATE GLEANINGS.

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mail delivery.
Bill Arp will lecture in Jackson
next Tuesday.
Jackson has a dollar a day hotel
the Kalar House.
Hon. j. c. Lamkin has been cleo
ted Mayor of Summit.
Natchcz is flooded with a dow Of
counterfeit silver dollars.
The tide Of negro emigration to
the Yazoo Delta continues.
The fine residence of Mr.. Chae
Levy, of Summit, was burned last
week.
The next meeting OF the Method
list Conference viii be held in Jack
son.
The name of Scotland circuit
was changed by Conference to Bow
ertOn.
Judge Bolls succeeds Col. White
head as the editor of the Gloster
City News.
Rev. l.. ). Foster has withdrawn
from the Baptist Record and moved
to Carrolllon.
The firm Of A. Il A. X. Burnett,
of Port Gibson have failed asects,
OF 1nD. E,b;i;t;os En 0OO
Thad Arlington put Pete Dan
cey's light out in Meridian last
Friday. Both colored.
Mr.. +. Ii. Wentworth and Miss
Lula A. Scott, OF Meadville, were
recently joined in wedlock.
The Oxford Eagle comes out
strongly in favor Of Capt. Put Oar
den for Ourinext Governor.
The editor OF the New Mssissip-
plan has gone to Washington to
look at the Congressional museum
Gen. Henry is trying to raise a
battalion of Mississippi companies
to attend the Washington drill in
May.
Natchez wants $4,000 more for
her National cemetery road, and
Congressman Van Eaten has intro.
bill To that effect.
Judge Van Eaton has succeeded
in getting u bill through the House
of Representatives, providing for
regular terms of the United State
Court at Mississippi City.
Major Barksdale has introduced a
bill to refer to the Court of Claims
the petition of G.. w. Grant, of Co
piah county, Miss, for the value of
POI bales of cotton destroyed dur
ing the war.
Foul play at Gloster on the color
ed planter Green from Sharkey
counly,,,is emphatically denied by
r. S. McLain, Mayor Of Gloster,
who says nothing of the kind has
occurred in that vicinity.
Jackson has a drill company com
posed Of Is society young ladies
called the George Green Guards.
In n match drill the other night
with the Jackson Light Guards, an
organization composed OF Young
men, the young ladies came off win
nerS.
In the suit brought by r. ID.
Gambrel on the bond of j. j. Jones,
liquor dealer Of Jackson, for keeping
dsorderly house, the jury brought
in verdict OF not guilty, and APP
p!icatiOn has been made by COM
plaiuant for a new trial and change
Of venue.
The officers of the Gulf and Ship
Island Railroad Company are: Pres
ident w. III. Hardy, Vice President,
w. C. Falkner, of Riply; Secretary
aud Treasurer, VIM. Henry, of Jack
son; Superintendent of Construction
for the Southern division, j. A. Hos
kins.
State Superintendent Of Educa-
ton Preston has recei, ed from an
unknown source $25 conscience
money, with letter requesting that
it go to Tippah county, saying it
would repay with interest wrong
upon the school fund of that coun-
". 1t is supposed to come from
some school teacher who must have
rendered and collected a fraudulent
account.
The people of Copiah county will
hold mass meeting at Hazlehul 81
on Feb 9Th TO petition the |. G. Rail
road for cheaper freights on cotton
and TO appoint representatives to at
tend the Interstate convention of
dairymen, lumbermen and fruit
growers, which meets in jackson
Feb. 10Th. Gen. s. ID. Lee has been
invited to address the meeting.
The Masonic Grand Bodies will
hold their annual session in this
city during the week commencing
Feb. 7. The Grand Chapter will
convene on the 9th. Hon. r. z.
Bowen, OF Chulahoma, is the Grand
High Priest. The Grand Comman-
derry will meet on the Sth. DIR. B.
A. Vaughan, Of Columbus, is Grand
Commander. The Grand Lodge
will meet ON the Suh. Judge b. L. |